Rooted in personal experience with sexual assault, this collection of essays explores profound themes of justice, sexual violence, and retribution. The award-winning author delves into her own journey, offering insights that resonate with contemporary societal issues. Through her reflections, she examines the complexities of healing and the pursuit of justice, making this work both timely and impactful.
A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can't escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and ..